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Peter’s Counsel to Parents
attainments that can be reached by becoming partakers of the divine
nature. The human agent who daily yields obedience to God, who
becomes a partaker of the divine nature, finds pleasure daily in keeping
the commandments of God; for he is one with God. It is essential that
he holds as vital a relation with God as does the Son to the Father. He
understands the oneness that Christ prayed might exist between the
Father and the Son. Jesus prayed, “Neither pray I for these alone, but
for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they
all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may
be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast
sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”
Lifted standard
What privileges and blessings are granted to those who have ob-
tained like precious faith with the disciples of Christ. Nothing is
withheld from them. The apostle says, “His divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” The stan-
dard is lifted up before us higher and still higher, and yet we are to
reach it individually. We may attain unto glory and virtue, though
weak, sinful mortals, by learning daily lessons in the school of Christ,
by becoming conformed to the divine image, by manifesting His ex-
cellency of character, by adding grace to grace, by climbing round by
round the ladder heavenward, by becoming complete in the Beloved.
As we shall work upon the plan of addition, by faith adding grace to
grace, God will work upon the plan of multiplication, and multiply His
grace and peace unto us. We are to be diligent students in the school of
Christ, having a knowledge of His will, and becoming active laborers
in His vineyard.
Plan of multiplication
The apostle describes to us the plan on which we are to work.
He says, “Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue